Farmer Boy

Vocabulary activity for Chapters 25-26 of Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder!

Here are some exerts from the story. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word. When you have answered all of the questions, click the "Check Answer" button. A box will pop-up with your score. Do not close until your score is printed or reviewed by your teacher.

When Almanzo _____ the door behind him, the noise of the storm was not so loud as the warm stillness of the barns.
1. chaffed
2. latched
3. tasseled
The cows stood in a row, placidly swinging their _____ tails; you could hear them chewing their cuds.
1. tasseled
2. strained
3. gouged
Father put a strip of cowhide through the hole in the flail, and _____ the ends together to make a leather loop.
1. latched
2. switched
3. riveted
"That's a lazy man's way to _____," Father said.
1. rivet
2. tassel
3. thresh
The fans whirred inside the mill, a cloud of _____ blew out its front, and the kernels of clean wheat poured out of its side and went sliding down the rising heap on the floor.
1. strain
2. tassel
3. chaff
Bad boys found nothing but _____ in their stockings on Christmas morning.
1. gouges
2. switches
3. rivets
Almanzo tried to be good for so long that he could hardly stand the _____.
1. latch
2. quake
3. strain
He had to _____ the steel knives and forks, and polish the silver.
1. scour
2. thresh
3. rivet
Almanzo's insides _____. He knew what would happen if Mother knew about that black splotch, hidden on the parlor wall.
1. quaked
2. threshed
3. switched
Spoons ate up the clear cranberry jelly, and _____ deep into the mashed potatoes, and ladled away the brown gravies.
1. gouged
2. latched
3. chaffed